WHILE AT THE FARM
- Wash your hands with soap and water thoroughly and frequently after touching the animals and before eating or drinking or touching your face.
- If bitten or scratched immediately report to your guardian and/orowner.
- Visitors are discouraged from taking strollers, wheelchairs, toys, baby bottles, pacifiers, food and beverage into the areas where animal contact may occur.
- Immunocompromised persons and infants under 1 should avoid touching or feeding animals.
- Do not kiss or wipe your hands on clothing.
- Walk calmly around the animals, do not shout, scream or run around them.
- It is recommended to stay at home if you feel sick, as you can transmit your disease to the animals.
- It is not allowed to feed animals with unauthorized food.
- It is not allowed to hit, torment, chase or harass the animals.
- It is not allowed to come into the animals feeding and water areas.
- No walk-ins are allowed at any time.
SOURCES
Simcoe Muskoka Health District Unit. Recommendations to prevent diseaseand injury associated with petting zoos in Ontario, March 2009 Availableat: https://www.simcoemuskokahealth.org/docs/default-source/jfy-businesses/recommendations_to_prevent_disease_and_injury_associated_with_petting_zoos_final
Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care: Recommendations to preventdisease and injury associated with petting zoos in Ontario, February2011. Available at: https://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/publichealth/oph_standards/docs/reference/Petting_Zoos_2018_en.pdf